A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.